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Hey, sorry if I came across dick-ish myself. Didn't mean to - and, seeing as you fixed the 's', which was undoubtedly a mere typo in the first place, I switched you to an upvote.

As for your question, sure I have ideas, and I can describe my ideas for you if you're sincerely interested, but I don't claim to have any strong proof that they're certainly right. I merely take the general idea that God created the world and pronounced it 'good', and that once we fix all the shit that we've caused in ourselves and in the world, we can all get started living the good life, which will, at heart, be all the stuff we like doing here minus assholes (and minus our own asshole-ish tendences), and plus levels of friendliness, charity, kindness and consideration that would put Gandhi and Mother Teresa to shame. I imagine there will be fewer cars, and more trees. And probably you'll have to work pretty hard to cause yourself a hangover.

I wasn't trying to 'fix' your atheism - I was just saying that it's not often that anyone on reddit, atheist or theist, liberal or conservative, gets sincere, thoughtful responses to their questions. It's a problem we all face.